Shock! Horror! Abbott does what he said he would
Those who clearly know better are appalled by the idea that Tony Abbott wants the people to decide on gay marriage
Letters
Justified bombing Sir: A.N Wilson’s suggestion that the 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan was “without any military or moral justification”…
Culture buff
Last week’s opening by the Sydney Theatre Company of The Present was a high water mark in its history. Adapted…
Dying in Turkmenistan (for a fag)
Turkmenistan boasts the lowest smoking rates in the world. How on earth do they do it?
Elysium
The best time is the summer time When cow parsley is high, And daylight hours of field flowers Are spread…
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
Antigua
‘Tourism, tourism and tourism,’ said my Antiguan cab driver, when I asked what the country’s main industries were. Still, it’s…
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
Viking trail
The Australian grandmaster David Smerdon has written a truly exciting book about some of the byways in the Centre Counter…
No. 375
Black to play. This position is from Kosmo-Smerdon, Goa 2002. Can you spot Black’s beautiful winning move? Answers to me…
Triple thrill
In Competition No. 2911 you were invited to submit a thriller in three text messages. This one seemed straightforward enough…
Your problems solved
Q. How can you tactfully tell someone that the large skin tag or blob they have grown in the centre…
Jamie in chains
Jamie’s Italian is squeezed into the Devonshire Arms on Denman Street, Soho, borne on the duplicitous winds of TV shows…
Get fracking
Over the past week, the government has finally made a decisive move to kickstart a fracking industry in Britain. Licences…
High life
These are the languid, sensuous days of summer, and I’ve had another birthday, which is the bad news. But it’s…
Long life
I was saying the other week that my new hearing aids had come with a warning not to swallow their…
Long life
I was saying the other week that my new hearing aids had come with a warning not to swallow their…
Low life
‘How many people have you slept with in your life, roughly?’ she asked. We were lying in bed in the…
Low life
‘How many people have you slept with in your life, roughly?’ she asked. We were lying in bed in the…
Asexual
There was a time when my husband, who often addresses the television, would habitually react to Edward Heath’s appearance on…
Real life
If anyone wants to know why the Labour party is about to elect Jeremy Corbyn as its leader then they…
Captain Cook proves good guys can triumph
The roar of the Premier League is beginning to drown out everything else in sport (there’s even Friday night football…
